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Orange game time pushed back? Restaurants and bars adjust like Tyler Ennis on a fast break

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Syracuse Orange basketball fans -- and the bars that host them -- have to make an adjustment to today's delay in tip-off time. These fans cheered the Orange at the Saltine Warrior Pub downtown.
(Jim Commentucci / Post-Standard file photo)

"We expected to get whupped before the (3 p.m.) game and then to be whupped again after the game," said Scott Lowenberg, manager at Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub in Armory Square. "Now it looks like we're just going to get whupped all day."

Lowenberg said the pub was jammed by mid-afternoon with Orange-clad fans already out for their pre-game festivities. He was "staffed to the hilt" because of the game in any case.

"The fans are all dressed in Orange, and they're out, so where else are they going to go?" he said. "We're busy, but we can handle it."

Others restaurants took to social media to tell patrons they're ready.

"Francesca's will be open till 10:30 tonight to accommodate dining after the SU game!!!," according to the Facebook status update for Francesca's Cucina on North Salina Street. "Come have dinner at Francesca's after the Big Game. Go Syracuse!"

"Game time changed... we are switching gears too....ready to serve @ 4:00!," its Facebook status declared.

ALFA owner Alexia Falcone said she realized she needed to make the switch when a customer called and asked if he could come in earlier to eat so he could make the game.

"It's wreaking havoc isn't it?" said Falcone, whose restaurant has three TVs in the bar, some of which are visible from dining room tables. "But really, people are calling and so we just made the switch. What are you going to do? People are excited about the team."

Have your dining and game-watching plans been affected by the switch? Let us know in the comments.

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